Thomas Brunner#
Membership Number: | 6845 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 2024 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | https://www.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/brunner/research-group-of-professor-thomas-brunner-biochemical-pharmacology/ |
ORCID: | 0000-0002-1594-4712 |
Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomi-brunner-b33b282b/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2022 Chair of Board of Directors, Biotechnology Institute Thurgau, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
- since 2020 Professor and Chair of Biochemical Pharmacology, University of Konstanz, Germany
- 2007 - 2010 Associate Professor, Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland
- 2000 - 2007 Assistant Professor, Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland
- 1997 - 2010 Independent Research Group Leader, Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland
- 1993 - 1997 Postdoctoral Fellow, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego, CA
- 1992 - 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Clinical Immunology, University of Bern, Switzerland
- 1990 - 1992 PhD Thesis, Institute of Clinical Immunology, University of Bern, Switzerland
- 1988 - 1989 Master Thesis, Theodor Kocher Institute, university of Bern, Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- Nuclear receptors
- Immunology
- TNF family
- BCL-2 family
- Glucocorticoids
- Cell death
- Inflammation
Honours and Awards
- Since 2020 Spokesperson of the DFG-funded Transregio-Collaborative Research Center TRR 353 "Death Decisions"
- 2011 - 2020 Spokesperson of the DFG-funded FOR20236 Research Group "New insight into Bcl-2 family interactions: from biophysics to function"
- 2004 - 2007 Swiss Coordinator of COST Action 844
- 2002 Theodor Kocher Award, University of Bern, Switzerland
- 1995 Fellowship Swiss Society for Medical and Biological Fellowships
- 1995 Roche Research Foundation Fellowship
- 1994 Ciba (Novartis) Annerversary Foundation Fellowship
- 1993 Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship
- 1992 Pharmacia Allergy Foundation Award